Scaling Venture: Aligning Strategy and Operations

Wharton Alumni Relations is excited to bring you the next faculty webinar offered to our Wharton alumni community. Through April 30, registration will be open EXCLUSIVELY to members of the Wharton Global Clubs Network and Wharton Fund donors. If you are not already a member of our club, we encourage you to join and take advantage of this valuable benefit.

Webinar Title: Scaling Venture: Aligning Strategy and Operations
Webinar Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Webinar Time: 12 p.m.ET
Led By: Gad Allon

Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decision

Pre-registration is available to members of Wharton Clubs. Register today, by following the appropriate link below:
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About this session:
We will approach the challenge of scaling operations by taking a holistic view that incorporates competitive strategy, financial evaluation, and the customer experience. A scalable operations strategy is a plan for developing assets and configuring processes such that the resulting competencies maximize value for stakeholders. We focus on decisions and challenges that many firms that try to scale their operations face: assessing the attractiveness of a firm’s operating system from an investor/external perspective and a management/internal perspective. Then we study building competencies in-house (i.e., investing in a portfolio of assets whose capacity, type, and location define the internal supply chain) or buying them (i.e., developing and implementing a global sourcing strategy and integrating external supply chain partners).